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With a full house of kids, I don’t get as much of a chance to dabble in technologies that I’m not using at work. So, I am much more selective in what I choose to learn. I also seemed to … Continue reading →

Are you sure that your cover letter is doing its job? How do you know if you’ve written an effective cover letter? If you aren’t getting a call back on your application, your cover letter may be the problem. How … Continue reading →

Recently, I have been reading Chasing The Rabbit by Steven Spear. This is a methodical dissection of market leading organizations and what they do to gain and maintain the lead in their respective markets. Spear looks at a wide variety … Continue reading →

Randall Kennedy released an excellent analysis of the Chrome OS that I invite you to read. In that analysis, Mr. Kennedy outlines why he believes that the Chome OS is doomed to fail miserably. Though I haven’t seen Chrome OS … Continue reading →

Squirrel SQL provides some nice features that SQL Management Studio does not have out-of-the-box including auto-completion of table and column names. Granted, Red Gate makes tools for Management Studio to get the same functionality, but SQuirrel SQL is open source … Continue reading →

Some classes simply require multiple dependencies that don’t always get used. When testing such a class, there are several options for supplying the constructor parameters that will not be used. I prefer to write tests that are as intention-revealing as … Continue reading →

My name is Eric Anderson, and I am NOT the newest member of LosTechies. I am, however, the most recent person to make an introductory post. I landed my first development job in 1997 and stayed with that company through … Continue reading →